🔹🔹🔹🔹 GET INVOLVED 🔹🔹🔹🔹

Your Community Needs Your Voice.

Everyone has something to offer. Everyone has something to learn.

You don’t have to wait until you’re older, have a title, or have all the answers to make a difference.

Power Up With YOUth connects young people and communities with people, organizations, information, resources, and opportunities to learn and contribute.

Wherever you are in life, there’s a way to power up together.

🔹🔹 MAKE YOUR MOVE 🔹🔹

🔹Young People🔹

Your ideas matter. Put them into action.

Have a question, an idea, or something you want to change? Explore an issue, learn and share a skill, join a project, and connect with people who can help you take the next step.

Share an idea or tell us what you want to explore.

🔹Parents, Families, and Youth Allies🔹

Help young people discover what’s possible.

Encourage their curiosity, share your experience, or connect a young person with someone or something that could open a door.

Help a young person find an opportunity or make a connection.

🔹Educators, Schools, and Youth Organizations 🔹

Connect learning with the real world.

Explore ways for young people to apply their skills, investigate community issues, and contribute to meaningful projects.

Let’s discuss a project, partnership, or opportunity.

🔹Community Organizations and Churches🔹

Your work and young people’s ideas can strengthen each other.

Share what your organization does and explore opportunities for young people to learn, participate, and contribute.

Tell us about your work and where young people might get involved.

🔹Businesses, Grantmakers and Funders🔹

Invest in young people. Help make possibilities real. Your support can help connect young people with the knowledge, skills relationships, resources, and real-world opportunities they need to grow as informed, engaged leaders. We welcome conversations with businesses, grantmakers and funders who share our interests in youth development, civic learning and stronger communities.

🔹Professional and Skilled Community Members🔹

Share what you know. Open a door.

Offer your knowledge, answer questions, demonstrate a skill, or introduce young people to a career or possibility they may not have considered. Share your resources

Share your expertise or suggest a way to connect.

🔹Residents and Community Members🔹

You know your community. Help us see the bigger picture.

Share what’s working, what concerns you, and what resources or possibilities deserve more attention.

Share a community concern, idea, or helpful connection.

🔹Elected Officials and Public Institutions, 🔹

Help young people understand how communities work.

Connect young people with civic information, public processes, and opportunities to learn how decisions are made and how they can participate.

Explore opportunities for civic learning and youth engagement.

🔹🔹START A CONVERSATION🔹🔹

You don’t have to take on an entire project or have a complete plan. Sometimes the most valuable first step is sharing an idea, answering a question, offering a skill, or introducing two people who can help each other.

🔹Ready to make your move?🔹

Bring what you have. Share what you know. Discover what we can do together.

Email us at powerupwithyouth@gmail.com

Subject: Make Your Move! — Power Up With YOUth

Tell us a little about yourself, what interests you, and what you have in mind.

We’ll take it from there.